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I recently had to start working in a java project, forcing a change from vim to a IDE. Most of the time I'm just as produtive as I am normally with vim (in other languages, java's verbosity is why I went for eclipse). Their have however been several times where I switched over to terminal for very specific reasons, generally involving grep.
I see the command line as the least common denominator for software, almost all of your computers functionality is available to you. It doesn't come up often, but when it does, it is definantly nice not having to leave just to edit text.
Of course "there are locations," there are always locations. It's hard to be an oil derrick worker in the middle of Manhattan, and that's not because the cost of living there is so high.
Because our greatest projects have the greatest potential and therefore also the biggest risk involved.
Ask HN: how would you (re)invent mobile information access? 
Assume you have a blank canvas to work from and technology is no barrier.

The Siri Model, but that doesn't seem to work for more information intensive tasks? or is it the Google ten-blue-links "search engine"? Hybrid?
There are two things: The strength (energy) of the particles, and the number of them.

The particles slow down because they press against the electric field of interstellar particles. So the energy will smoothly go down as Voyager gets farther.

But the number of particles won't change. The number will reach zero once the particles slow down so much they turn around and go the other way but until that point the number of particles won't change.

It would be interesting to see a graph of the energy levels, but I don't know if Voyager carries such a device.
This is something that the large clients for legal services have been advocating for a while. It is generally called project based billing. Many legal fields operate more or less on project based billing nowadays, even if they technically operate on hourly billing. (Usually the billing is hourly but there is understanding about how long each project should take).

I think this is very dangerous and tends to reward mediocre work. But it is probably inevitable too, because in the legal field a large client will usually eventually get what he/she wants.

This article actually shows a big danger about project based billing. Notice his second piece of advice (Reduce Reading). Can you imagine having a lawyer who thinks he does not have to read everything to the end? This will end badly for some poor client.
Assuming your ISP is not blocking port 25 and your internet address is not on some blacklist you can send mail directly from your machine. No need to use intermediary SMTP servers.

Is it possible that someone people might like to use their native SMTP capability for low volume noncommercial email? Does every person who sends email have some overwhelming urge to send spam? Such that we must place pseudo control over sending email, any email whether commercial or noncommercial, in the hands of "email providers"?

Good on you for running your own service.
Out of curiosity, what were some of the first things you learned?

When I started Vim, the cursor movement commans (/ * ? G ETC) where the first things I learned, followed by yank, cut, paste and registers.

I'm still amazed by the inline editing tricks I see.
I have never met a programmer making 10x the average salary ($500k - $1mm depending) excluding liquidity events.
What excites me the most about SpaceX and Elon Musk is not so much the superficial/ostensible meaning of what they're doing (private contracts to deliver payloads to space) but the following. The fact that a foundation is being laid for a situation where basically a single guy, a private citizen, namely Musk with his personality and talents and passion, can one day slam his fist down and say, "That's it. Fuck it. We're going to Mars." and then make it happen. Putting humans on the surface of Mars. Or an asteroid, whatever. As completely private missions, if desired. Without getting bogged down by a flaky showboating Congress, by NASA budgets, by legacy bureaucracy, etc. Because they're building (incrementally) a complete in-house stack for taking people off-planet and (eventually) to other ones, and back. Yes you have to make the money work. That's doable. But more importantly it reduces their exposure to bureacracy, government and BDC inertia. And it's not a baby-vs-bathwater situation. They can hire away the brains from NASA and other space companies, where needed, where possible, so it's not like they're losing out on all that accumulated experience and best practice. But they do get to start from scratch and make it much easier to greenlight new "risky" projects and Get Things Done.

Planetary Resources excites me for similar reasons. Though I don't think they have quite the same degree of talent at the top in a single guy as with the case of SpaceX. But still, very promising team, vision and approach.
How move to a third-world country and plant a tech startup (Part I)
I just see all the usual stuff that's get put on motivational posters, "insist on perfection" - seriously? I'm sure there's some good stuff for people but buried under all the usual platitudes.

"Don't outsource" may have been right for fab.com but its not always good advice. Simple websites that are just retail stores care about brand, real technology companies that actually do something that hasn't been done before often outsource with good success. Like Apple for example, that outsource quite a lot of their product and yet seem to be doing ok. (Maps aside)

Most of this reads like a 60's flower child that went to Harvard and got an MBA.

I'd like to see some of this craving for perfection and every pixel needs my approval put into practice and not see fab.com paint itself smaller than the viewport on the iPad and then onReady() redraw itself to fit the screen. Or menus that don't need to be double clicked.
This doesn't affect any normal person's right to resell their car, unless they personally arranged for the import of the car against the wishes of the IP owner of the car.
An SMTP daemon will try to send the message a certain number of times, at a certain interval, then, eventually, it will stop ("bounce"). You can configure these settings if you run your own SMTP service.
Yes, and yes... Did you make the same comment on the other people focusing on the panorama portion of it over the art portion?
Was in the same place a month ago, here is what I wish someone told me.

- You can move a file, just "copy" and then press option when "pasting"

- Command + Delete is deleting a file (del on windows)

- Rename file is Enter (f2 on windows)

- Command + tab actually works as intended

- Fn + Delete = del key

- Home, End, Pg Up, Pg Dn - different, you'll get used to it

- Learn Vim and Linux, as you'll use the terminal a lot

- Installing stuff is a bit weird - dragging the icon to the Applications shortcut, dmg files basically look like a virtual "drive" that you can eject

- No easy way to maximize a window, really, you need a 3rd party app

After getting used to the little quirks, you'll get used to the stability, and speed. Windows 7 is not a bad OS, but for some reason me and my wife fight over the MacBook Air more than on my Lenovo Thinkpad...
Eclipse seems to be a program that consumes all available memory to turn its windows grey when you type into it. I'm not sure how you think it's suitable for Java programming.

(More seriously: Eclipse is not suited for text editing, but it is suited for dragging and dropping getters and setters. If that's what Java programming is to you, you can save a lot of time with Eclipse.)
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I didn't mean that the progress we've seen is because of x86, but because of the PC standardization.

Imagine if we had a couple of competing systems like IBM PC, Atari, Commodore and Mac, each with 20-40% market share, each with their own chipsets. Do you think we would have 30 GFLOP single threaded / 700 GFLOP multithreaded performance built in commodity systems now? I don't think so.

In mobile space it's kinda similar: Only because ARM was able to get such a dominant position in chip design we have the current speedup rate.

The thing is however, that the main chipset is not the whole story, it seems to me that the way those dozens of subsystems work together nowadays just isn't designed well - as you said it just barely works. Having a standard would help in that every subsystem manufacturer could just provide drivers for his part and the OS would then know what to do with it, it's not necessary anymore for the assembler to do all that work.
As a general matter, judges get fed up with petty shenanigans pretty quick.
> How does the appearance look? You send e-mail to foo@business.com and then funkyjizzbeats20@gmail.com replies to you! What could be more professional than that?

If you configure your GMail account correctly, it will reply via the other account's own SMTP servers. There will be no evidence of your private GMail account, even in the headers. (This is not the same thing as just configuring GMail to set a particular "From:" address.)

> Also, what about security?

If both accounts are hosted by Google, then unless you're doing something stupid with one of the passwords they're pretty much equally secure.

If your business account has privileges within the app domain, you might actually get a security benefit by not being logged into it all the time. Kinda like not being logged in as root all the time.
I wonder if it would be worthwhile for them to sell support as a service—say, $25 or $29 per support call. I suspect a lot of people who are locked out of their accounts for whatever reason, even temporarily, would pay for this.
Why Mark Pincus failed?

Or did he? How much did he make from the Zynga "failure"?
There is for recipients using certain versions of outlook.

But there's a workaround for that, see my other comments on this thread.
IIRC the safest class you can get a rocket into occurs once it has 14 successful launches in a row. PS I'm not an expert in this.
I'm not sure this analogy applies. You're talking about a drug with addictive versus a social network that, for most reasonable people, I would imagine, is not necessary to access when you're driving. In fact I'd be willing to bet that most people would agree this is a bad idea, until you actually put it in front of them.
This is a natural outcome for a system that has a large number of people but poor rule of law and arbitrary justice.

Fix the legal system and reduce the corruption and you will get a corresponding decrease in "flesh searches".
I'm surprised more people don't take Wiley (and all the other textbook publishers) to task for their price-gouging ways. Instead of going after the kid who found a good arbitrage opportunity, maybe they ought to reexamine their pricing models.
Waze's product is dreadful, it looks like a kids game and the information is half way between a social network and a useful traffic information source. Contrast Waze with google's discreet color coded streets that show the same information and its clear why everyone loves google maps.

Mapping is an interesting area right now and Apple's poor performance in this area has opened a nice little market to fill useful maps for the average person, but Waze is not it. It would just be a waste of money for Apple to buy them.
Too bad we'll never see Rushton's reply, since he died a few days ago.
Nich confessed to helping write it.
First of all, this is obviously not happened in this situation, so we should not trivialize the existing labor problems at Foxconn with such imagined hypotheticals.

Second, it is very unlikely an external party can organize such action among a foreign insular and sequestered workforce without Foxconn finding out. They certainly have spies among the workers.
I disagree. I think people can distinguish between running a tight ship and penny-pinching.
ahaha! my mistake =)
still... as the country is going, even a little-known cheese manufacter will be able to buy the country
I have experienced, many times, people sending mail to the lower priority SMTP server despite the primary being fully online.
compensation in banking is very related to performance

The last four or five are conclusive proof that this is not even remotely true.
I think you and the parent are using different meanings of "guarantee."

Yes, everything in the protocol leads to the fact that nothing should drop an email unless it has passed responsibility of it to another server which has accepted the message.

In practice, lots of times things don't work.
"Your penny-pinching concerns seem a) quaint and b) short-sighted."

I'm not concerned about the cost of keyboards and mice, but I think it's endemic of wastefulness. In some sense, it's akin to the Van Halen brown M&Ms sentiment
To print screen a specific window, CMD+Ctrl+Shift+4+Space
It's not the cost of the particular item that matters, and I think you miss the overall point.

You may think it's trivial, but the same behaviors are reflected in software development (wastefulness of resources) and from what I've seen there's a strong correlation between wastefulness in life and wastefulness in work output.
To summarize; where the rule of law fails the rule of man takes its place.

Herd mentality (or 'mob mentality'), group intelligence, and -- more to the point -- decentralised decision making spring very quickly to mind. It is dangerous and usually easily taken advantage of, much like other similar structures (eg: stock market, taste in music, religion).
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Absolutely.

You'll probably run across a lot of web sites recommending older package managers like MacPorts and Fink, just because they've been around for a long time.

YMMV, but I (and many others) find Homebrew superior in every respect.
They work fine for me.

Edit: are you using a real Apple keyboard?
disorder to a great extent is evidence of a lack of organization, and the best people generally keep everything in order (including their desks)
I guess the civil system (private lawsuits) is failing to protect intellectual property interests? Who holds those interests? The taxpayer? The government? Business entities?

Why not give the grants to businesses who are trying to protect their IP? Or to ones that are seeking to create IP and register it?

Supposedly, as the article states, this sort of capital allocation is supposed to forward the goal of promoting creativity.

But I'm not sure people will cease to be creative simply because others won't be prosecuted for alleged IP violations. But maybe they won't make as much money? Perhaps a clearer goal, instead of "protecting creativity", could be stated, such as "protecting revenue streams of businesses that produce and register IP (via fees paid to government)." As we've seen such businesses are not always the most creative. In many cases they are just the most prolific filers for IP registrations.

Creativity existed long before the legal fiction of intellectual property.
I sometimes wonder why space exploration interest ever waned. You would think as population increases and natural resource supplies tighten, that the world would be a bit more motivated. I'm convinced that interest is low because the problem is just too damn hard.
It would be like Google buying Excite.
I don't even gave a 2 digits amount of BTC IIRC, but I do accept donations.

And yeah, I'd like to have an alternative when bitcoin suffer the napster fate, because too many computing in the government hands could result in a bitcoin takeover
I don't think stealing is the biggest concern. The implications in terms of firm culture are more damning than the actual act itself.
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One wouldn't assume that of the USA anymore, I'd think; the US government has been disappearing people since 2001, not to mention killing US citizens with drones who are alleged to have created and published propaganda (but not to have committed direct violence).

So far, such incidents mostly relate to the USA's ongoing state of war, not other kinds of "regular" corruption. However, as groups like Wikileaks and Anonymous butt up against, e.g., the state department and the military industrial complex, I think their members are wise to protect their identities.

I think the difference might stem more from the fact that in the USA (and pretty much all advanced Western democracies) we still have a lot more ability to remain anonymous than do people in China.
Maybe I'll write another post about how LinkedIn is going to crush Twitter.
> Now I'll grant you that the G+ app looks the most pretty, but it's a pain to use.

This! I can't believe that Google, out of all companies, would go "form over function" on a mobile app. Scrolling through a feed is so distracting that I wouldn't even want all my friends to be in there. (So far I've only scrolled around the food pictures in the public stream.)
I can't speak for everyone, but it is most likely the former. The handful of maths teachers I know absolutely loathe word-processed assignments since the majority of students don't bother using proper mathematical notation when they type things up (let alone use a proper type-setting program like LaTeX), so you end up with a bunch of students handing in stuff like:

∫e^x dx = e^x + c

Unfortunately, this sometimes results in teachers abandoning word processing altogether and making pen and paper mandatory.
> Not only can they devastate individual lives and
> legitimate businesses, they also undermine our
> nation’s financial stability, can jeopardize the
> health of our citizens, and even threaten our
> national security.

[citation needed]
I don't understand the distinction, isn't Google's account system still the same as before? So G+ is the need to attach a real name?
While many popular FOSS packages have been completely ported to the Mac's UI, there are still some packages that require X11. You can get it here:

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
Ask HN: Why does my startups conversion sux?
I launched my startup 12 weeks ago (www.mypropertytracker.com.au) - and I'm struggling to get traction or conversion.

The problem I face is all the feedback from users in my startup is 'positive' - yet it is not converting into many paid subscriptions.

So far my google adwords have a low conversion rate to free trial accounts. Meanwhile my free trial accounts have a low conversion rate into paid subscriptions.

I've currently tried:
- Landing page with call-to-action
- Free trial accounts with no credit card
- Startup wizard (per Patio11 suggestions in his blog)

Things I'm about to try:
- A/B testing
- Patio11 lifecycle email course

But I was hoping members of HN might have a quick look and see if there are any areas that could be improved?
It's pretty easy for us to rebuild the pyramids today, but what's hard is trying to do so with the same level of technology the Egyptians probably had at the time, which makes them wonders of the world instead of just another easy-to-make mudhut.
Private schools are mostly the same structurally, they just have better tracking/pace since class sizes are smaller, and they can exclude disruptive students.
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Another crap press release on another crap preliminary correlational study.

-- This should have made the mock-HN humor thread =]

Original is behind a paywall, though. [1,2,3,4]

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Notes

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[1] HN humor > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731

[2] Original | (paywall) > http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608012... (paywall)

[3] This can't be as bad the Organic food one, though?

[4] Abstract: The etiology of creative writing has been overlooked thus far in studies of skill acquisition. Here we attempt to make a start by examining the familiality and heritability of indicators of creative writing in a sample of 511 Russian-speaking children, and their 489 mothers and 326 fathers. The contributions of cognitive ability (fluid and crystallized intelligence) and family environment were also taken into account. Results show modest but statistically significant familiality and heritability of creative writing in this sample, even when other cognitive and environmental factors are added to the model.
How much of a 'victim' is Disney if I was to violate the copyright on Steamboat Willy? Is Warner Chappell a 'victim' if I do a public (or private) performance of the "Happy Birthday Song" without paying royalties? How much of a 'victim' is a group of lawyers that bought up a couple of overly-broad patents in a fire sale, if I infringe on their patent for 'A method of displaying pictures of food on a webpage using a computer' without paying any royalties?
Ask HN: State of Streaming Media
1) Could anyone recommend an up-to-date article/reference on the state of streaming media protocols, servers, and clients - what's going on with DRM, the implications of Apple cutting Flash from the iPad, etc.? Something for a technical person from a completely different field?

2) If you were building Hulu today, what technology would you use?
Unfortunately using something like Latex in the Real World is just no pheasible unless you're in an area specific for it. you need to share documents and you think your office secretary is going to learn how to use Latex just to edit your company wide email?

microsoft worwd is the defacto standard, no matter how i feel about foss.
Eclipse is bloated, granted, but if you think its strong point is "dragging and dropping getters and setters" then you haven't seriously tried it. I used to think IDEs didn't matter much for basic code editing, but had to change my opinion after using Eclipse and IntelliJ (my preference) for a while. Higher-level (as in -- with knowledge of the programming language) editing and refactoring can make a big difference to your editing experience. Tasks that were tedious become trivial and part of the normal flow. You actually find yourself writing code in a different way once you understand how easily you can manipulate blocks of code (rather than just blocks of text).
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> Eclipse seems to be a program that consumes all available memory to turn its windows grey when you type into it. I'm not sure how you think it's suitable for Java programming.

Considering that about half of the Java community uses it and is quite happy with it, did it occur to you that maybe, your experience with it was not representative?
For a contract to be valid some form of consideration (payment) is required, and it must be accepted by some action. You can't just issue contracts unilaterally.

The legal version of your approach, which people do all the time, is to modify a contract before you agree to it.
For example, print the EULA, modify it, and mail it back with a check that they have to cash to accept.
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>hen it augments the maps with proprietary data gathered by users running Waze software on their phones and from people manually contributing corrections to the Waze data set.

All 100 of them?
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